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127. Uraria Desvaux, J. Bot. Agric. 1: 122. 1813.

狸尾豆属 li wei dou shu

Authors: Puhua Huang, Hiroyoshi Ohashi & Yu Iokawa

Subshrubs, shrubs, or perennial herbs. Leaves 1-foliolate or imparipinnately 3- or 5-9-foliolate, stipulate and stipellate. Ra­cemes or panicles, terminal or axillary. Flowers numerous, dense, small. Bracts deciduous or persistent, imbricate, 2-flowered at each bract; bracteoles absent. Pedicel elongated after anthesis, apically hooked, rarely not curved. Calyx 5-lobed, lower 3 lobes usually longer, upper 2 lobes partly connate. Standard orbicular or broadly obovate, clawed, auriculate; wings adherent to keel, shortly clawed, auriculate; keel obtuse, slightly incurved, auriculate. Stamens diadelphous (9+1); anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, 2-10-ovuled; style incurved, linear; stigma capitate. Legume small, jointed; articles 2-8, plicate or peltate, folded laterally or longitudi­nally, not dehiscent, with 1 seed per article.

About 20 species: mostly in tropical Africa, Asia, and Australia; seven species in China.


1 Leaves 5- or 7(or 9)-foliolate, sometimes mixed with (1-)3-foliolate leaves   (2)
+ Leaves 3-foliolate, often 1-foliolate on upper part of stem   (3)
       
2 (1) Leaflets linear to narrowly oblong, adaxially usually variegated on midvein, lateral veins looped with margin; pedicel 5-6 mm during anthesis, to 8 mm in fruit; lateral and lowest calyx lobes not elongate after anthesis, 2-3 mm; leaves (1-)3-foliolate on lower part of stem.   1 U. picta
+ Leaflets narrowly ovate to ovate, elliptic, or oblong, without variegated area, lateral veins extending to margin; pedicel 6-12 mm during anthesis, to 15 mm in fruit; lateral and lowest calyx lobes elongating to 5-6 mm after anthesis; leaves sometimes (1-)3-foliolate on upper part of stem.   2 U. crinita
       
3 (1) Inflorescences usually terminal panicles, with dense glandular hairs 1-2 mm on inflorescence rachis, pedicels, and calyx; legume shortly pubescent.   5 U. lacei
+ Inflorescences usually simple, sometimes with elongate branches but not paniculate, glandular hairs present or absent on inflorescence rachis, pedicels, and calyx; legume glabrous or pubescent   (4)
       
4 (3) Lateral and lowest calyx lobes more than 2 × as long as upper lobes; inflorescences usually 3-6 cm, densely flowered; bracts persistent, spreading at apex; leaflets usually orbicular to broadly ovate.   3 U. lagopodioides
+ Lateral and lowest calyx lobes less than 2 × as long as upper lobes; inflorescences usually longer than 6 cm, densely or loosely flowered; bracts deciduous or persistent, erect along inflorescence when persistent; leaflets oblong to ovate, rarely (in U. sinensis) broadly obovate or obcordate, apices truncate or emarginate   (5)
       
5 (4) Inflorescence rachis, pedicels, and calyx with dense, spreading glandular hairs 1-2 mm; legume glabrous; inflorescences densely flowered; bracts 9-18 mm.   4 U. neglecta
+ Inflorescence rachis, pedicels, and calyx without or with sparse glandular hairs 1-2 mm; legume shortly hairy; inflorescences ± loosely flowered; bracts usually shorter than 13 mm   (6)
       
6 (5) Apex of keel obtuse; pedicel 5-6 mm, recurved after anthesis; calyx lobes narrowly triangular, acuminate; legume minutely hairy; leaflets obtuse to acute or rarely rounded at apex.   6 U. rufescens
+ Apex of keel apiculate; pedicel to 13 mm, not recurved after anthesis; calyx lobes triangular to broadly ovate, acute; legume subglabrous with long glandular hairs; leaflets obtuse to truncate or emarginate at apex.   7 U. sinensis

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